Friday Hoyden: Miranda Hart

Miranda Hart, the award winning star of Miranda, is joined by co-star Sarah Hadland and BBC Head of In-House Comedy Mark Freeland to give a master class on the hit sitcom. The session examined the show’s origins on Radio 2, how the BBC2 commission came about (and the later effects of the switch to prime time BBC1) and the creative process at both writing and shooting stage. It also explores the future of the series, and what its success might tell us all about British comedy today.

Highlight from the annual MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival

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I absolutely love her as Chummy in Call the Midwife! I find the comedy in Miranda to be not-really-my-thing (a bit too slapsticky for my tastes), but I am nonetheless still very pleased to see a woman doing so well in comedy and I am very glad that she brings lots of pleasure to people who DO like her style more than I do. Definitely as fan of Miranda Hart as a human being!